Chapter 1179 - 1002, Every Grain of Porridge and Rice Comes with Hardship
Every spring, Daohua would go to Daoxiang Village to inspect the spring plowing, and each time he would bring Daozi with him. Once they arrived at the manor, it wouldn’t be long before Daozi mingled with the children of the tenant farmers, teasing cats and dogs, running around everywhere.
Thus, Daozi was no stranger to the fields.
While Xiao Moreng and the others were still annoyed at getting their shoes dirty and stubbing their toes on the freshly plowed earth, Daozi had cheerfully picked up his little bag and started collecting ears of grain.
The field where the children were picking up the grain had just been harvested the day before.
After the grain was exposed to the scorching sun, the kernels would easily fall off. Even though the tenant farmers harvested carefully, there would still be some ears of grain left behind in the furrows.
Not only did Daozi and a few others pick them up, but the children of tenant farmer families did as well.
Whatever ears of grain were left in the fields, whoever found them would claim them. There was no need for instruction, and whenever this time came, all the children from the tenant farmer families would be mobilized.
Seeing the fields filled with children picking up grain, Xiao Moreng and the others seemed to assimilate and slowly joined in.
"We’re picking up ears of grain as a punishment. Are they doing the same?" Xiao Mobao slowly gathered grain, bending over only to take a rest before bending again, so leisurely that even the youngest, Xiao Moxu, walked ahead of him.
When Daozi heard this, he turned around and said, "I know about this. They’re picking these ears to take home to eat."